View northwest from Goat Hill over Caribou (9800 feet), Boulder County, Colorado, includes streets lined with log, board and batten, wood frame false fronts, gabled and lean-tos structures. Many have external timber braces propped against them for protection against the strong west wind from the Continental Divide. Businesses on Potosi Street include stores, saloons, restaurants and the post office. The Sherman House is on the corner of Potosi and Sherman Streets with a horse-drawn wagon alongside of the three-story hotel. The schoolhouse is on a slope of stumps; "Baldly Mountain" (Bald Mountain) with light snow is beyond the town.

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Copy photonegative is masked with paint and black construction paper; original has torn areas and staining.; Formerly F6988.; Title hand-written on back of photoprint.; Typed on back of photoprint: reproduction of an original picture of Caribou, Boulder County, Colorado. The original was taken in about 1880. Reproduced by Clarence Reckmeyer, Black Hawk, Colorado, March 1, 1944. Presented to Western History Department, Denver Public Library.; R7100067980

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